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ARCS

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ARC 1  (ärk)
n.
A combination of symptoms, including fever, lymphadenopathy, blood abnormalities, and susceptibility to opportunistic infections that is a precursor to AIDS in some individuals infected with HIV.
[A(IDS)-r(elated) c(omplex).]
ARC 2
abbr.
American Red Cross
arc  (ärk)
n.
1. Something shaped like a curve or arch: the vivid arc of a rainbow.
2. Mathematics A segment of a circle.
3. An electric arc.
4. Astronomy The apparent path of a celestial body as it rises above and falls below the horizon.
intr.v. arced (ärkt), arc·ing (ärkng), arcs
1. To form an arc.
2. To move or seem to move in a curved path: the stars that arc across the sky.
[Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus.]
ARCS
abbreviation for
Associate of the Royal College of Science


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Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
You or I walking beneath the arcs of Main Street, or Broadway, or State Street, could not have moved more surely or with a tenth the speed of the agile ape-man through the gloomy mazes that would have baffled us entirely.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Carter Druse grew pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statuesque group before him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in arcs of circles in a fiery sky.
A Horseman in the Sky by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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